The Reliability of Sense Perception: Transformations in the American Legal Profession

by William P. Alston

Book Overview

Why suppose that sense perception is an accurate source of information about the physical environment? More generally, is it possible to demonstrate that our basic ways of forming beliefs are reliable? In this book, a leading analytic philosopher confronts this classic problem through detailed investigation of sense perception, the source of beliefs in which we place the most confidence. Carefully assessing the available arguments, William P. Alston...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481015
• ISBN13: 9780801481017
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher